你可能受到的伤害 会更多
“you would have been hurt more heavily.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
如果把你留在 我身边的话
“If I had kept you by my side,”
你可能 受到的伤害 会更多
“you would have been hurt more heavily.”
“I wasn't able to take care of myself then.”
“I know leaving you hurt, but staying with me in my broken situation back then would have ruined you completely.”
In Chinese familial dynamics, elders often make painful unilateral decisions to separate from children during financial or personal collapse, viewing it as shielding the child from deeper suffering despite the resulting estrangement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to suffer hurt / to get harmed
A standard collocation used to describe experiencing emotional trauma or physical harm.
unable even to take care of oneself / too overwhelmed to look after others
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) commonly applied in spoken Chinese to convey extreme personal crisis or overload.